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Manuel Ribas was an all-rounder: architect,
lawyer, Professor of Urban Design at the ETSAB, bibliophile, disseminator and inveterate traveller.
A connoisseur of European culture, he was in-
fluenced by Gaston Bardet, ...

Grandson, son and father of architects, renowned professor and honoured urban planner, Manuel Ribas Piera was the foremost promoter of international relations at the Barcelona School of Architecture, inviting the best known ...

The exhibition "Barcelona, Links" and its catalogue identify seven central hubs in the metropolitan city with problems of continuity that disrupt the eficiency of urban reality. The title includes a reference to the ...

The recently opened factory for creation and
school for the arts is the subject of an Aperitiu by the LUB, which turns the seminar discussion into a site visit. The practices of Francesc Bacardit and Manuel Ruisánchez ...

The urban transformation of Paral·lel, one of
the principal avenues marking the boundary of
the Eixample, is a topical issue in Barcelona.
A few years ago, the rehabilitation of the emblematic Molino (BOPBAA arquitectos) ...

This study carried out in Dogon country forms
part of a research project about extreme cultural landscapes carried out by the Ginna Kanda collective, associated with the UPC and
directed by the lecturer Miquel Vidal. It ...

The article deals with the origins and the spatial expression of the first stations of Santiago de Chile’s Metro system, built in the 1970s as features in a major urban project: the modernization of the city by building ...

Shortly after the demolition of its town walls, Barcelona saw the appearance of the first passageways, concentrated around its Plaça Reial. Today there are 15 or more, scattered throughout Ciutat Vella. Built over a century ...

The recent silent intervention in the hill-top anti-aircraft batteries of El Carmel marks a new chapter in ongoing efforts to use public space in Barcelona to trigger social cohesion and citizen
identity. Rather than ...

The article explores the water-city relationship from the viewpoint of the most basic urban reality: one where the key objective is the physical construction of a space that is safe, served and equipped for people. In other ...

Philip Kay's text gives a biographical account of his love-hate relationship with the Manhattan street grid. His series of personal anecdotes reads like a list of offences; Manhattan's orderly system of streets and avenues ...